Some staff members estimate that 30 to 50 percent of FDC Miami’s medical positions are currently vacant.
Ulysses Cabrera was in the midst of diagnosing his eye condition when he was sent to Miami’s Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami) in October 2020 to await trial for allegedly leading a drug-trafficking gang based in Little Havana. Doctors at the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute believed Cabrera had a condition called ptosis, which causes one’s upper eyelid (or eyelids) to droop.…